Supreme Magus novel Chapter 2049

Chapter 2049 Time's Up (Part 1)

While Crank listened to the messages, Solus flew on Faluel's shoulder and the pillar of light followed her.

"Look kid, this is a great idea to have your troops always know your position on the battlefield but right now you are just wasting your mana and making all of us a target." The Hydra said.

'I'm not doing this on purpose. I think I'm undergoing a world tribulation. Do you have any idea how to make it stop?' Solus replied via a mind link to avoid being overheard.

'What?' Faluel had never witnessed one and had mistaken the light for a strategy and Solus' odd appearance for a disguise to protect her identity. _{freёwebnovel.com}

She used Lifestream to check on her apprentice, just to discover that according to her breathing technique nothing was happening and Solus' life force was unchanged despite her metamorphosis.

'I'm sorry, but I have no clue. Lith you are the expert.' The Hydra replied.

'Expert my scaly ass. When it happened to me, it was always about killing or protecting someone. Except for that time when I tried to save Protector's life.' He said.

'Are you telling me that if we lose this battle Solus dies?'

'Maybe and maybe not.' Lith shook his head. 'I failed to save Protector yet I'm still here. I think that tribulations are more about proving to Mogar who you are than about success.

'I didn't destroy Kolga alone, I just freed the souls from the Forbidden Sun with Solus' help.'

'Let's do everything we can to save Belius, just to be safe.' Solus said, pacing non-stop to relieve her anxiety.

"Okay, the lizard is right. We have new orders." Crank said, oblivious of their conversation. "Ignore the land army and move to the sky. Our new target is the storm front."

"How is that going to save Belius?" Lith asked. "There are hundreds of Awakened mages just a few hundreds of meters from us and it just takes one of them to open a Spirit Warp inside the city."

"The plan is to stop the advance of the clouds and buy enough time for the weather mages to bring the hot spring air to them. This way, the storm will trigger away from the city and unleash its fury on Thrud's army.

"Two birds with one stone." Crank replied.

"Are you kidding me? There's no time for that." Lith said.

"It's a gamble, kid." The Hyperion's voice became serious. "Either we stall the advance of the Divine Beasts or we kill enough of them to make the clouds disperse. Everything else will end in our loss."

Lith looked at the incoming army, then at Solus' pillar that refused to disappear, and lastly at Belius.

He felt that by allowing Thrud's army to reach Belius' walls, he was letting its people down again, but he had no choice. Solus was much more important to him than any city of the Kingdom, even Lutia.

If he were to lose Belius, it would have been painful, but losing her would have been like losing Carl all over again, if not even worse.

"Let's go, then." He flapped his wings, raising a lot of dust as his army of demons followed suit.

The moment he took off, half of his shadow remained on the ground while the other half crawled on his legs up to his knees. The Demons who had yet to fully reform refused to give up and clung to him in their slime form to not be left behind.